Basic Scientific Methods
Directions
identifying Basic Scientific Methods
For this assignment, you will use the Unit 2 Assignment Template to respond to each of the following:
Match each of the six research method terms to their correct definition.
What topic would you like to know more about concerning a behavior that you witness in yourself or others?
Based on your identified topic, explain each of the following steps of your proposed research based on the scientific method.
Theory: What is your research question?
Hypothesis: What results do you expect to get?
Research Method: What research method do you think will be best suited to study the behavior? How do you plan to use that method to collect data?
What ethical issues might come up with your research idea? Describe what ethical considerations you would need to keep in mind, referencing the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. Focus on the General Principles listed on the top of the page.
Assignment Guidelines
Your completed template should include the following elements:
Answer all the questions using appropriate personal and professional insights.
The assignment must be written in Standard English and demonstrate superior organization, including a highly developed viewpoint and purpose that is clearly established and sustained.
The communication of your thoughts must be highly ordered, logical, and unified, displaying exceptional content, organization, style, and mechanics (including the use of correct grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure).
Your responses should meet professional writing standards, using proper tone and language.
Be sure to use in-text citations for any resources (such as your text) that are used to support your responses and conclusions. Include a Reference page with sources listed in APA format.
This assignment assesses the following Course Outcomes:
Explain basic research and scientific methods used in psychology.
Apply ethical reasoning to ethical issues within the field of psychology.
Name:
Fill in the Blank Research Methods
Using the types of Research Methods listed below, please type the correct term in the textbox next to each definition:
(Archival Research, Clinical or Case Studies, Correlational Research, Experiments, Naturalistic Observation, Surveys)
1. Focus on one person or just a few individuals to gain a deep understanding. This approach is helpful for rare or unique cases and questions can be formed more clinically with less standardization.
Clinical or Case StudiesClinical or Case Studies
2. To gain information by simply observing behaviors in their natural context. It is important for the observer to be inconspicuous and unobtrusive.
Naturalistic Observation Naturalistic Observation
3. Lists of questions to be answered by research participants, and can be delivered as paper-and-pencil questionnaires, administered electronically, or conducted verbally. Generally, it can be completed in a short time, and its ease makes it possible to collect data from a large number of people.
SurveysSurveys
4. Using existing records to answer various research questions. This type of research relies on looking at past records or data sets to look for interesting patterns or relationships.
Archival ResearchArchival Research
5. This method studies relationships between two or more variables, but this does not necessarily imply cause and effect. When two variables appear to have a relationship, it simply means that as one variable changes, so does the other.
Correlational ResearchCorrelational Research
6. This is the only way to establish that there is a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables. It requires at least two groups, the manipulation of at least one variable, and randomization of subjects.
ExperimentsExperiments
What topic would you like to know more about concerning a behavior that you witness in yourself or others?
I would like to know more about food addiction behavior topic since some people binge eat when they have specific moods like sadness or joy.I would like to know more about food addiction behavior topic since some people binge eat when they have specific moods like sadness or joy.
Steps of the Scientific Method
Please complete the table below, replacing your own responses to ...
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